Men travelled across the country “by appointment” to use and abuse vulnerable
young girls who were befriended, drugged and then subjected to violent
sexual acts of extreme depravity, a court heard yesterday.

Six children from Oxford, aged as young as 11, are said to have been used and
sold for sex over an eight-year period by an organised ring of adults who
displayed “little or no human decency” in targeting, exploiting and
corrupting them.

Nine men aged from 24 to 38, all from the Oxford area, are accused of a total
of 79 offences against the girls, who were each